DNS Security Extensions are about to make the Internet a lot safer
Jan 19th, 2010
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Filed under: Internet , Security DNS hijacking and poisoning has been around since the dawn of time — it just didn’t enter the popular media until recent high-profile attacks on Twitter , Baidu , and the success of China’s Golden Shield Project . Basically, DNS in its current form is incredibly insecure when compared to corporate infrastructure. With DNS hacks it’s very easy to set up pharming (think ‘farming’ combined with ‘phishing’) where a popular site is redirected to a rogue server
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